Dr. habil. Michael Quinten is a senior staff member at FRT GmbH in Bergisch Gladbach, working as Head of R&D Sensors and Head of Technical Coordination. Previously he was project manager in development and product manager at the STEAG ETA-Optik GmbH in Heinsberg, Product Manager for ""Color and Coatings"" (Color measurement, coating thickness measurement and simulation), ""Spectrometry UV-VIS-NIR"" and ""Integrated Optics"". He has been Research assistant at the Universities of Chemnitz TU, University of Saarland, Ruhr-University Bochum, RWTH Aachen and visiting professor at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz.